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"Unemployment" Collage

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Description: Unemployed men on a street with the word "Unemployment" collaged above. Part of a series of Highlander collages from the film center.
Photograph

SDS March Againt Racist Unemployment Poster

Date: 1971
Description: Poster for a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) march against racist unemployment, taking place March 20, 1971, in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, C...
Drawing

Wisconsin Turns Its Back on the Soup Kitchen

Date: 02 1932
Description: Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation.
Photograph

Registering for Unemployment Compensation

Date: 1936
Description: View of the atrium of Milwaukee's City Hall with a crowd of people gathered to register for unemployment compensation.
Photograph

Waiting in Line

Date: 09 2013
Description: The bronze and plaster sculpture by George Segal depiciting five men waiting in a bread line at a door. The sculpture is on the rooftop garden of the Madis...
Drawing

Gisholt Closed by G&L

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Description: Political flyer by Sid that reads: "Dedicated to high salaried no dividend corporations." Below is an illustration of a pig wearing a suit and tie, holdin...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

The Reason For Hotel Liberty

Date: 04 03 1915
Description: Newspaper illustration of a man carrying a bedroll standing near railroad tracks and a sign that reads: "Warning, Private Property, Keep Off." The caption ...
Poster

Por El Cumplimiento De La Tabla Salarial

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Description: A man, standing with a sack on a scale, and a woman, also holding a sack, are each holding one fist up in the air. The woman's sack reads: "Queremos pan ti...

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